This site provides high-definition images of national treasures and important cultural properties owned by four national museums in Japan. Can search in both English and Japanese.
Provides links to guides about and sites containing photographs and other visual images of Japan, as well as selected books on the history of photography in Japan.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division has more than 2,500 Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
Offered by Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the site includes online exhibition of postcards with downloadable images. The works largely date from the early twentieth century to the years just before World War II
National Diet Library offers a list of digital databases, including Online Exhibits, Digitized Rare Books and Old Materials, Digitized Images of Books and Periodicals After 1868, and Digitized Ishinomaki Newspaper.
Columbia University provides a comprehensive resource on online databases, exhibitions, and teaching resources made by its museum with Asian art collections on Japan
An international digital library project run by Library of Congress and UNESCO which contains hundreds of images from Japan, including ukiyo-e, maps, and other fine arts prints.